So I'm moving from my apt to a rented home at the end of the month. I mentioned to my new landlord that I am thinking of getting satellite to make sure she has no problems with putting a dish on the house. She has none and offers a suggestion to me...
If we paint the outside of the house, she will give me two Direct TV receivers for free! Wow, what a great deal I think. The house isn't very big and that could save me a few hundred bucks on receivers as I want two HD DVR boxes. Well it doesn't play out this way because anything too good to be true is just that.
She goes on to say that she runs her own interior design business out of her home on top of renting homes and her assistant was in charge of setting up Direct TV for her a while back. The assistant screwed up and set up a commercial account instead of a residential account, and when she went to order PPV the boxes wouldn't let her. She called Dtv and they told her it was because she was set up as commercial and she would have to place a residential order instead. So she did and was then "stuck" with three commerical receivers.
First off, is any of the PPV claims true there?
She then goes on to tell me that if I call and order one receiver I'll then be able to plug these other two boxes in on my residential account because her neighbor did the same thing. Huh?
Can someone please confirm my thinking that a commercial box will not work in a residential set up regardless of if I plug them in myself or not?
BTW, I'm still playing the game for now. She said she dropped the boxes off at the house today so I'm going to go check them out. I'll post model numbers when I get back.
If we paint the outside of the house, she will give me two Direct TV receivers for free! Wow, what a great deal I think. The house isn't very big and that could save me a few hundred bucks on receivers as I want two HD DVR boxes. Well it doesn't play out this way because anything too good to be true is just that.
She goes on to say that she runs her own interior design business out of her home on top of renting homes and her assistant was in charge of setting up Direct TV for her a while back. The assistant screwed up and set up a commercial account instead of a residential account, and when she went to order PPV the boxes wouldn't let her. She called Dtv and they told her it was because she was set up as commercial and she would have to place a residential order instead. So she did and was then "stuck" with three commerical receivers.
First off, is any of the PPV claims true there?
She then goes on to tell me that if I call and order one receiver I'll then be able to plug these other two boxes in on my residential account because her neighbor did the same thing. Huh?
Can someone please confirm my thinking that a commercial box will not work in a residential set up regardless of if I plug them in myself or not?
BTW, I'm still playing the game for now. She said she dropped the boxes off at the house today so I'm going to go check them out. I'll post model numbers when I get back.
